Information Technology Reference
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17.9 Find - Finding Manager
Component name
CASPAR Finding Aids
Component acronym
FIND
The component provides data retrieval functionality.
The main responsibility of the Finding Aids module is to
function as the “link” between the end-user (consumer or
digital archive) and the rest of the CASPAR system, with
respect to the search and retrieval facilities.
Component description
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Finding Manager allows one to:
1) Store Descriptive Information objects and
corresponding schemas
2) Associate Descriptive Information objects to
AIP objects
3) Discovery Descriptive Information objects and
associated AIPs
Component interfaces
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Finding Registry allows one to:
1) Preserve registered Finding Managers information
(DL, QL, etc.)
2) Provides Text-query functionalities over
DescInfo objects
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Finding Manager (FM) Web Service WSDL
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FINDMANAGER.war - FM web service archive
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FINDMANAGER-stub.jar - FM client library to access
FM web service
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Finding Register (FR) Web Service WSDL
Component artefacts
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FINDREGISTRY.war - FR web service archive
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FINDREGISTRY-stub.jar - FR client library to access
FR web service
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caspar-client.jar - common CASPAR client library to
access any CASPAR key component (includes jax-ws
libraries)
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FINDING AIDS overall interface - see Fig.
17.21
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Finding manager model (Class Diagram) - see Fig.
17.22
Component UML diagram
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Finding Manager model implementation with
SWKM - see Fig.
17.23
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Finding registry model (class diagram) - see Fig.
17.24
Component specification
FindingAids-Spec-Ref-1.0.pdf [
204
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Component author
National research council (CNR) - institute of information
science and technologies (ISTI) (Italy)
Licence
